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In order to receive Milk Income Loss Contract payments for January, dairy producers must sign-up today at their local Farm Service Agency offices.
With Rhea County schools closed Tuesday, teacher Kathy Shaver took advantage of her day off to try to use her double coupons to fill her weekly grocery list.The avid coupon-clipper from Evensville, Tenn., cut the $58 list price of her food items to only $28 with trips to both the Publix and Bi-Lo supermarkets in Hixson. But many items on her grocery list weren’t available and may not be available until weather conditions improve.
Two chain stores announced Saturday that they had pulled U.S.beef products from their shelves following the news that a banned drug used to promote leanness in meat had been detected in beef imported from the U.S.
Feed The World: Warnings of a global food shortage are cropping up in the news. This should not be happening in 2011. But while our technologies have advanced, our politics are still prehistoric.
SEATTLE -- After 70-some years and four generations of milking cows in Washington’s Snohomish Valley, the Bartelheimers were the latest in a long list of dairy families who have called it quits. But the long, low barns had been empty for less than a week last month when the cows came home again.Today, the dairy is in operation as one of four rented locations Jeremy and Jerald Visser are using to expand their herd.
Yes - Zippy Duvall, president, Georgia Farm Bureau - Americans enjoy the safest, most diverse and affordable food supply of any nation in recorded history. No - Brian Riedl, Grover M. Hermann Fellow in Federal Budgetary Affairs, The Heritage Foundation - Farm subsidies are outdated, unnecessary and unaffordable.
The 2011 all-milk price is forecast to average $16.10/cwt. to $16.90/cwt.
Gov. Jerry Brown appoints longtime agricultural advocate Karen Ross to head California’s Department of Food and Agriculture.
State ag director Katy Coba looks forward to the challenges and opportunities ahead.
Can the U.S. afford to continue to be reactive on somatic cell counts, animal identification and disease tracking, and chronic bovine diseases?
Summary highlights dairy industry’s efforts to increase economic, environmental and social sustainability.
“Bottom line, if milk quality is not important to you, you’re probably in the wrong business,” says dairy producer Dave Sumrall.
Oklahoma congressman wants to prevent EPA “from imposing standards which would cripple American agriculture.”
(RTTNews) - Global food prices rose to a record high in December 2010, according to a monthly report released by UN’s Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) on Wednesday.
Strong export growth experienced across the nation in 2010 was capped by record numbers at many larger ports in November and the momentum is likely to continue in 2011, reports The Journal of Commerce.
Only vaccine labeled to reduce prevalence and shedding of E. coli O157 at the source.
NMPF and USDEC hope the move will lead to the end of Mexican tariffs on U.S. goods, including many cheeses.
Maker of robotic milking systems to build new North American headquarters and production site in Pella, Iowa.
Maintaining active composting in a compost-bedded pack barn is a real challenge during the winter months. Here’s advice on how to handle it.
French dairy group Sodiaal has reached an agreement to acquire struggling domestic rival Entremont Alliance. The move creates a dairy giant with over 7,000 employees and sufficient scale to participate in the ongoing consolidation in the European dairy sector.
It’s cleanup and rebuilding time for the Arkansas farming community after a New Year’s Eve tornado. A dairy farmer was among the dead.
A new draft report backs use of whey protein concentrate in certain food aid products.
Rod and Kaysi Hubsmith were awarded the cheese manufacturer’s highest honor and two all-expense-paid tickets to Ireland.
The issue of market access for US agricultural products in India seems to have taken an ugly turn with US Secretary of agriculture Thomas Vilsack sending a strongly-worded letter to his Indian counterpart Sharad Pawar, stating that the bilateral agricultural relationship will be “jeopardised” if India does not change its approach.
Rock Creek Dairy project is the fourth digester in Idaho’s Magic Valley and the first to take effluent from multiple sites.
But higher feed prices will narrow producer profits.
Florida congressman also serves as a vice chair of the Congressional Dairy Caucus.
Pfizer Animal Health announces the availability of Salmonella Newport Bacterial Extract vaccine with SRP® Technology
Set goals and implement comprehensive programs for higher-quality milk
Includes estate tax provisions with a $5 million individual/$10 million married couple exemption plus a top tax rate of 35%.